Re: Memory/Object question

I have big jobs running in PHP cgi mode myself. I can't for sure say that your example will free up, but in all of my testing where PHP3 did not free up -- even with unset()ing variables in PHP3, PHP4 clears up -- without unset()ing. It's garbage colection is wonderful. You might want to search the archives for one of the times when I said "PHP4 Rocks". -jeremy brand http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for more --------------------------------------------------------------------- We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. -- Calvin Coolidge > In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011091055280.1098-100000@one.ctelcom.net>, > bughuntr@one.ctelcom.net (Bug Hunter) wrote: > > > I'm working on a program that will be running for a while (days) (using > > php in a cgi mode). > > > > If I have an object in an array and do the following: > > > > obj2 = new obj; > > > > obj["1"] = obj2; > > > > If obj["1"] already existed, what happens to it? does it lay around > > consuming memory, or is it destroyed? > > In PHP 3, it laid around. > In PHP 4, it should get destroyed, almost-for-sure. > > > Or does the data in the object get copied? If not, can I make the data > > get copied so I don't eat up memory, without doing a variable at a time? > > You may be able to dink around with & and get less copy-construction going > on in some places, but I doubt that you can do it in this particular > example. > > How sure are you that you need your script to run for days? Could it be > turned into a cron job that ran every few minutes instead? > -- > Richard Lynch | If this was worth $$$ to you, buy a CD > US Customer Support Director | from one of the artists listed here: > Zend Technologies USA | http://www.L-I-E.com/artists.htm > http://www.zend.com | (this has nothing to do with > Zend, duh!) > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >